About Amy White

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Amy White is a former senior editor at Super Lawyers having been with the magazine for 17 years. Prior to that, she was a sports columnist and feature writer for a daily newspaper in Pennsylvania. Her freelance work can be found in Delaware Today Magazine, Mainline Today, Brandywine Hunt, Philadelphia Style and Delaware Beach Life. She is an adjunct professor of writing at the University of Delaware, where she graduated with a journalism degree. She also holds an MFA in publishing and creative writing from Rosemont College and has served as line editor on poetry anthologies and works of contemporary fiction. She loves baseball, bikes, books and coffee.

Articles written by Amy White

Tech Support

Before she was a tech lawyer, Jennifer Beckage was in on the internet’s ground floor

In the late ’90s, Jennifer Beckage was a 20-something Southerner with big hair and a Texas twang who saw the future. She would sit down in boardrooms across the Northeast making a simple ask of Fortune 500 presidents: “Just throw away your entire marketing plan,” she says. “The whole world is changing. You should listen to me, a 20-year-old, and move your 100-year-old business online.” She laughs at the memory. “I believed in the product, I was passionate about technology and about …

Court to Court

How an encounter with a stingray led Cheryl Meyers Buth to the NBA

If you see Cheryl Meyers Buth tooling around Orchard Park in her Jeep, please stop asking her if she knows LeBron James. She doesn’t. “If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me that,” she says, laughing. (She does, however, have his agent’s number.) Why does Buth, one of Buffalo’s most renowned criminal lawyers, find herself questioned about one of basketball’s greats?  You’d have to go back to an unfortunate run-in with a stingray. Buth and husband Neil (“The best life …

Can Employers Mandate the COVID-19 Vaccine?

As the nation’s workers returned to pandemic-shuttered office buildings, many concerns about personal safety lingered about coronavirus exposure—namely, who is vaccinated and whether an employer can make you submit proof of vaccination. Years after the COVID-19 vaccine changed the American workplace, experts now recommend that individuals treat COVID-19 like other respiratory viruses, such as the flu and RSV. An experienced employment lawyer can help you address the legal issues related to …

Including Pets in Your Estate Plan: Pet Trusts

To say that pets are family members doesn't encompass the depth of feeling that comes with loving and cherishing a furry, feathery, or scaly member of the clan. As with all facets of estate planning, the responsible thing is to make formal arrangements for the care of your beloved pet well before your death. “People are living longer and many older people are alone,” notes Chester B. McLaughlin, an estate planning attorney in Prescott, Arizona. “And so their pets become incredibly …

'This Won't Be the Last Crisis We See'

Juan Chavez on the tear gas-filled summer of 2020

One moment Juan Chavez was decompressing with a beer with his fellow Oregon Justice Resource Center colleagues over Zoom; a few hours later, Portland’s Justice Center was on fire. It was May 29, 2020. The beer was an antidote to a tough day in court, in which Chavez and his team argued for increased health protections for prisoners in Oregon jails on the heels of the state’s first COVID-19 inmate death. The fire was a protest response to George Floyd’s killing four days earlier. “That …

Lawyer's Best Friend

How a poodle named Aristotle brings calm to Joel Feldman’s family law office

Joel Feldman has a secret weapon at his Boca Raton law office. Be warned, though—it steals potato chips and is often spotted sneaking into rooms where confidential information is divulged. “But he does understand attorney-client privilege and would never breathe a word of anything he hears,” Feldman assures. The “he” in question is Aristotle, his beloved standard, parti-colored poodle.  Before retiring to firm life, “Totle” was a therapy dog, and Feldman would take him to tour …

How Can My Biometric Data Be Used in the Workplace?

Some employers require biometric data to grant workers access to restricted areas or sensitive data. Employers may use employee fingerprints or face scans to use a laptop or for timekeeping. Many employees don't like the idea of giving their employer their biometric data and may have concerns over privacy issues or worry about a data breach. In most cases, employees have few privacy protections against employer-required biometric data. Only a few jurisdictions give employees a private right …

Deepfakes in Business: How Can You Protect Your Reputation?

If any of the 1.4 million fans of @deeptomcruise on TikTok or other social media don’t read the fine print, they may walk away from a video of Tom Cruise rhapsodizing over a strawberry Blow Pop and think it’s legit. (It’s not). The popular account exists solely to share deepfakes of the actor—fake videos named for the deep-learning artificial intelligence that helps users create them.  While @deeptomcruise may be silly fun, the FBI predicts that this same kind of deepfake …

Delaware's Got Talent

Lawyer and Profundo Bono ensemble player Kiadii Harmon counts Moby Dick as a theater credit, and Judge Robert B. Young as a friend

Kiadii Harmon didn’t need to go to law school to learn this fundamental truth: “If a judge asks you to do something, you do it—even if it means agreeing before you know what you agreed to,” Harmon says, laughing. That’s what happened when Delaware Family Court Judge James McGiffin emailed Harmon in January and told him he had a musical opportunity for him. McGiffin, known for his love of music, wanted to make a funny COVID-19 singalong to help cheer up his good friend, Delaware …

Stopping the Scroll

Salene Mazur Kraemer says in a high-stress field, photography is a saving grace

Salene Mazur Kraemer says her “obsession” with taking photos is rooted in her own changing visage. “I was born with a cleft lip and palette, and had 19 surgeries,” says the Pittsburgh bankruptcy lawyer. “My face kept changing every year as an adolescent, and I think that has a lot to do with my interest in photography.” Finding herself with some extra time on maternity leave in 2007, Kraemer dusted off her camera and reignited a lingering passion. “As a lawyer, there is so much …

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